Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
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Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.
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That Lana Del Rey is quite cute, isn't she? I quite like her.
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I started reading G. K. Chesterton's 'The Man Who Was Thursday' on a subway ride, almost missed my stop, and walked home thumbing pages.
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I've been having a lot of fun exploring different aspects of filmmaking, like writing and producing. There isn't a specific plan and I usually don't know what's going to be the next thing I do.
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As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.
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Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.
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Every gesture is a revolutionary act.
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I want to finish by saying that I intend to be an avid spokesperson for testicular cancer once I have beaten the disease... I want this to be a positive experience and I want to take this opportunity to help others who might someday suffer from the same circumstance I face today.
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Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.
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So I humbly accept the honor, keeping in mind the words of a British playwright, John Mortimer it was, 'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense and relatively clean fingernails.' Well at best I've got one of the two of those.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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The U.S. military cannot fight Iraq's war for them.
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Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.
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People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.
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Prayer is God's plan to supply man's great and continuous need with God's great and continuous abundance.
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I want to be on a show that's not sensitive to racial jokes; I want to be on one where they call me everything and I call them right back. There's blatant racism going both ways. That's what we need.
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The decision-making process was very difficult: is this how I want my career to start, with playing Jodie Dallas on this show?
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The easiest person to deceive is one's self.
